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J. H. PATTERSON. CASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIlN ll. PATTERSON, OE DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL (ASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,442, dated No venibcr 5, 1889.

Application filed May 7, 1889. Serial No. 309,878. (No model.)

i" all whom it may concern/.- are supported in a frame-work D, the keys 13 Be it known that I, JOHN H. PATTERSON, a being pivoted on a shaft E, and carrying 011 citizen of the United States, residing at Daytheir rear ends the vertically-guided tabletton, in the county of Montgomery and State rods F, having at their upper ends the figured of Ohio, have invented certain new and useindicating-tablets G, and provided with ful Improvements in Cash Registers and Inshoulders a, arranged to be engaged by the dicators, of which the following is a full, clear, supporting-win g H, actuated by the operation and exact description, reference being had of the keys through the medium of the vito the accompanying drawings, forming part brating bar I, bell-crank J, tripping-dog K, m of this specification. and wing-extension L, in the usual manner.

M y invention relates to .that class of cash M is the gong, sounded at the operation of registers and indicators which are inclosed each key by the hammer N, secured to the in a case or cabinet having a drawer-comwing-extension L. partment containing a money-drawer or till, 0 O are the registering-wheels, those of 15 which is held in its closed position by a the lower bank being turned by the dogs Z), locking device arranged to be released upon pivoted to the keys B, and each wheel of the the operation of any key to permit the drawer upper bank being turned one number at each to be partially propelled from its compart complete revolution of the corresponding ment; and it consists in a novel method of wheel in the lower bank, in the usual manner.

20 arranging and supporting the drawer in said In the lower part of the case is the usual compartment, whereby when the locking dedrawer-compartment P for the reception of vice is released by the operation of a key the the money-drawer, and into the upper rear drawer will be automatically thrown forward portion of which projects the usual lockingand partiallypropelledfrom its compartment. bolt Q, suitably guided and carried on the Its novelty will be herein set forth and speend of a pivoted lever B, extending across the cifically pointed out in the claims. rear side of the machine and arranged to be In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 actuated to lift the bolt Q upon the operation represents a sectional side elevation of awellof any key through the medium of the rear known'form of machine with my improveextension S of the bell-crank J, in the well 0 ments applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents a known manner. sectional side elevationof the drawer-com- The money-drawer or till T is pivotally partment, showing the drawer open. Fig. 3 supported by laterally-projecting studs 0 011 represents a sectional side elevation of the links U, (preferably two on each side of the drawer-compartment, showing a modified ardrawer,) pivoted on studs d,projecting inward 5 rangement of the drawer and its supportingfrom the sides of the compartment P. (In links. I the drawings, the rear side wall of the drawer- The same letters of reference are used to compartment not being shown on account of indicate identical parts in all the figures. the sectional views, the studs (1 shown in Inasmuch as the general construction of said views appear in crosssection.) Secured 0 the machine I have illustrated is well known to the upper rear side of the drawer T is the and is shown and described in a large numusual locking-plate IV, which engages the ber of patents, it will be suflicient here to say bolt Q to automatically lock the drawer when that A is the usual case or cabinet inclosing the latter is pushed into its compartment. It the registering and indicating mechanisms, results from this construction and the piv- 45 through the front portion of which case the otal arrangement of the drawer that whenfront ends of the operating-keys B project, ever the bolt Q is lifted by the operation of and in the upper rear portion of which is a a key and the drawer thereby released the glass-covered reading-opening O for the exlatter will by its own gravity be thrown out posure of the indicating-tablets ward and downward and partially propelled 5c The registering and indicatingmechanisms from the case; and, to enable it to be pulled IOO I position shown in Fig. 2.

still further outward to give better access to its interior, I provide the upper ends of the links U with slots e, in which the supportingstuds 0 on the sides of the drawer have play, so that when the drawer is released and thrown forward it can be pulled out to .the

sired to close the drawer, it is pushed inward and upward, the studs 0 slipping back to the rear lower ends of the slots 6, and the drawer then rising on the links U and becoming automatically locked in its closed position, as shown in Fig. 1. The front wall of the drawer is extended downward, as shown, to completely cover the opening in the front of the compartment when the drawer is in its closed position.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular arrangement of the drawer T and supporting-links U, as that may be largely varied Without departing from my invention or changing the mode of operation of the drawer. For instance, in Fig. 3y I have shown an arrangement of the drawer in which When it is de-- it is suspended on the links U, the latter being pivoted in the upper part of the compartment instead of the lower.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- 1. In a cash register and indicator, the combination, with the operating-keys. and a drawer-locking device actuated thereby, of the money-drawer 0r till T, supported on the pivoted links U, and arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

2. In a cash register and indicator, the combination, with the operating-keys and a drawer-locking device actuatedthereby, of the money-draweror till T, supported on the pivoted links U by slot-and-pin connections, .and arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

' JOHN H. PATTERSON. Witnesses: f

CONRAD RENO,

EDWARD RECTOR. 

